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From: wendyt@cs.washington.edu (Wendy Thrash)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Quality of Students
Message-ID: <14424@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 05:40:38 GMT
References: <1991Jan13.014852.26217@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: wendyt@june.cs.washington.edu (Wendy Thrash)
Organization: University of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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In article <1991Jan13.014852.26217@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu> olshause@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Ronald Gerhardt Olshausen) writes:
>When I was an undergrad, not so long ago, Business was a 
>fairly ignominious  major: it was what you studied when you flunked
>out of something else. Recently, it seems to have gained in prestige . . .

Interesting.  Twenty-some years ago, when I first entered graduate school
in mathematics, the computer science department was held in similar disrepute
by mathematicians.  Recently, it seems to have gained in prestige.

(I'm serious about this, by the way; I've often regretted not having taken
a graph theory course because mainline mathematicians in the department
thought it was too easy.)
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-Wendy T., who still suffers fear of flowing (as in max cut)